Re: State of MD seeks to close local firm

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

> In an affidavit, the state said that "even Neutron estimates that one of its
> neighbors receives 86 to 93 millirems per year from Neutron, or 86 to 93 percent
> of the limit. The average chest X-ray is between 10 and 20 millirems." 

Bound to happen .. linkage of "limits" to what is considered "safe". 
These are not synonymous terms. Can't blame the public on this one. 
If the regulators wouldn't rant and rave every time some facility has 
an individual exceed one of these "limits", there would be less of a 
tendency to associate the "exceedance" with an increased risk .. 
which the public, and lawyers want every one to think will lead to a 
cancer or death.

Sandy Perle
E-Mail: sandyfl@earthlink.net 
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"The object of opening the mind, as of opening 
the mouth, is to close it again on something solid"
              - G. K. Chesterton -
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